MX Management Server

Simplified Management for Governance and Protection

The SecureSphere MX Management Server provides a centralized location for administrators from which to manage their database and application auditing, compliance and security efforts. Up to 15 SecureSphere Web Application Firewalls, Database Monitoring Gateways and Database Security Gateways can be managed from a single console allowing for an end to end application and database activity monitoring, audit, and security management.

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Centralized Security Policy Management, Monitoring, Auditing and Reporting

The SecureSphere MX Management Server serves as the focal point of a three-tier management architecture that automates the task of managing large multi-gateway deployments.

Rather than require each gateway be managed individually, the Management Server provides a single point for aggregating security policy, real-time monitoring, logging, auditing and reporting activity across multiple SecureSphere gateways.

By simplifying and centralizing database and application security monitoring, auditing and reporting, the MX Management Server enables organizations to lower ownership costs and meet compliance requirements quicker.

MX Management Server Features

Specific SecureSphere multi-gateway management capabilities include the following:

Centralized Administration

Dynamic Profile, IPS policy, and system parameters for multiple gateways are stored centrally on the MX Management Server. Changes are made on the management server and automatically distributed to multiple gateways with a single click.

Hierarchical Management

SecureSphere provides an extremely flexible hierarchical grouping mechanism that allows administrators to classify the IT assets being monitored. This enables large enterprises, ASPs and MSSP deployments to create groupings of their enterprise by physical sites, customer, business unit, management function or other logical classification.

Flexible User and Role Definition

SecureSphere provides role-based management capability to enable custom administrative roles and groups. Administrators can arbitrarily create roles, grant privileges and assign users to them Coupled with hierarchical management this model greatly eases management as well as security.

Task Oriented Workflow

SecureSphere includes a workflow engine that allows task creation and management This enhances operational efficiency by allowing large and small organizations to focus their efforts in compliance and security projects.

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The Dashboard provides an overall status of all SecureSphere gateways and the applications, servers and databases managed, giving an instantaneous snapshot of enterprise-wide compliance and security status

Unified Audit Data Viewing and Management

SecureSphere's distributed auditing architecture distributes audit collection, data storage and analytical processing across multiple tiers and appliances. The SecureSphere management server presents high-level audit views while distributed gateways handle recording and storage of detailed logs. When compliance managers need to drill down from high-level views to detailed logs, the management server automatically retrieves the required information from distributed gateways. Audit information may be periodically archived to external devices to meet long term audit needs.

Unified Real-Time Alert Monitoring

Real-time alerts originating from multiple SecureSphere gateways and spanning multiple layers (Dynamic Profile, IPS, etc.) are collected, prioritized and presented to the administrator within a single unified view. Alerts notifications may be sent via email, phone, pager, and SNMP messages. There is no need to connect to individual devices distributed throughout the data center.

Centralized Reporting

SecureSphere's robust reporting framework includes a wealth of pre-defined reports, while offering complete flexibility for creating custom reports and templates appropriate for unique reporting situations, and integrating the analytical tools necessary for documenting compliance relevant to specific business environments.

MX Management Server Specifications

The MX Management Server can manage any combination of SecureSphere Web Application Firewalls, Database Monitoring Gateways and SecureSphere Database Security Gateways

Imperva's SecureSphere family of data security products provides unparalleled protection for databases and applications, ensuring more efficeint data auditing and compliance.